Day: October 26, 2008

Status Report

Story Blathering about story Current word count Rat in het nauw (flash, Dutch) Suicidal rat in Calais harbor. For my mother’s book on umbrellas. Seriously. Brooded over for months, started and finished today.   500 Opening Night (short) Science fiction. Inspired by a brainstorm in Villa Diodati #3, all plotted out and partially written.   […]

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Rebooting

Another Villa Diodati writer’s workshop is behind me, this time in the gorgeous villa Riveloup in Le Bar sur Loup, near Nice, France. And like the previous time, I am left with a sense of melancholia, humility, gratefulness at the proximity of so many wonderful writing minds, and determination to get a firm grip on […]

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